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• October 3. 2012 by jonasmunk from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — noun — english

  people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

• February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — noun — english

  a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adverb — english

  quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adverb — english

  completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  the complete stoppage of an action; "came to a dead stop"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dead — adjective — english

  devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"